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database of 7,000 known enemy combatants

The database is a more worrying prospect than the robots, in a lot of ways. Who gets to designate "known" and "enemy"? What if it's the Tinder eigenfaces program? Automatable ethnic cleansing?

Then what of the occupation? Robots aren't great for political legitimacy. Do you have them return fire on the kids throwing rocks at them? Unlike human guards I suppose they can sustain IED losses forever. But they're an A1 prime target for hackers...




> What if it's the Tinder eigenfaces program?

On the other hand, dispatching BigDogs and Spots to go on dates as proxies would be an interesting prospect.




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